New Beginnings

I'm beginning a new chapter with my blog. You may have noticed I have made a few changes, added new categories. As my blog title Woman alludes to, there are many aspects of womanhood significant to me that I want to write about them. I organized each one into different segments, hoping to streamline them for you. There is the category dedicated solely to my fight with depression, another committed to making an artful home, what it means to be a mother and wife, as well as my search to knowing God. I hope my blog offers you something meaningful to add to your own life.

This blog is a clarion call not just to women but to all creative types who want to live the “artful life” as Brittany Watson Jepsen coined in her blog, The House that Lars Built. I would like to add not just living the artful life, but finding the beauty in the simple life, the challenging life, the hopeful life. There are times when bogged down in my daily routine I feel like if I don't do something creative soon my spirit will die. I know I must not be the only one who feels this way.

I purpose the yearning for a creative life can be found in daily life. I want to find the beautiful in the grueling monotony of raising kids. I believe I will find purpose in battling depression. I don't want to romanticize the challenges of life but I refuse to believe life cannot be beautiful and meaningful, no matter how small. I want to create something new out of what life hands me.

I feel I need to stipulate I am no professional but that is precisely my focus on this blog. I am a champion of the amateur. Every great artist did not begin as a great artist and in my book, art, no matter how fledgling, is still art.

So here's to that scattered journal entry, that blurry photograph, the new recipe. Let's be creative even if we fail. Let's welcome a new challenge, relish in our own interpretation and improvisation and discover a new way to celebrate the world.

I hope you find a like-minded spirit here. I hope you are inspired by my humble attempts at creative living and it is able enhance you alludes to, there are many aspects of womanhood significant to me that I want to write about. I organized each one into different segments, hoping to streamline them for you. There is the category dedicated solely to my fight with depression, another committed to making an artful home, what it means to be a mother and wife, as well as my search to knowing God. I hope my blog offers you something meaningful to add to your own life.

Happy reading.

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